Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-231-10856-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series

The United States has always been a land of immigrants and a destination for refugees. With the increase in immigration in the late 1980s when the number of refugees entering the United States nearly doubled as well the number of clients needing social work services rose dramatically. Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees takes an ecological systems perspective on working with these two distinct groups, paying special attention to the relationship between individuals and their social environment.

Focusing on the major immigrant groups who have come to the United States since the 1965 Immigration Act, the book contains chapters on immigrants and refugees from Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Africa. Pallassana R. Balgopal and contributors explore ideas, concepts, and skills that will help human service workers, social workers, helping professionals, and policymakers deepen their understanding of cultural attitudes toward newly arrived immigrants and refugees, thus strengthening their ability to better serve an ethnically diverse clientele.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balgopal, Pallassana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by Pallassana R. BalgopalSocial Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees: An Overview, by Pallassana R. BalgopalSocial Work Practice with Asian Americans, by Jayashree Nimmagadda and Pallassana R. BalgopalSocial Work Practice with Latino American Immigrants, by John F. Longres and Davis G. PattersonSocial Work Practice with African-Descent Immigrants, by E. Aracelis FrancisSocial Work Practice with European Immigrants, by Howard Jacob Karger and Joanne LevineRefugees in the 1990s: A U.S. Perspective, by Nazneen S. Mayadas and Uma A. SegalConclusion, by Pallassana R. BalgopalContributorsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Pallassana R. Balgopal is professor of social work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.